The Confederate States Army was the army of the Confederate States of America (or "Confederacy") while the Confederacy existed during the American Civil War. On February 8, 1861, delegates from the seven Deep South states which had already declared their secession from the United States of America adopted the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States of America. On February 28, 1861, t...
During the Civil War many men of different United States Nations and cultures fought for the Confederate States of America (The South). These included Southern Whites, Freedmen (ex-slaves and the descendants of slaves), Native Americans, Mexican Americans and others.The specific purpose of this project is to create a family tree based upon the flags and battle-groups of the Confederates States ...
[ ] The 1st Cherokee Mounted Rifles was a Confederate States Army regiment which fought in the Indian Territory during the American Civil War. One of its commanders was Stand Watie. Confederate officials commissioned Stand Watie a colonel in the Confederate States Army in July 1861 and authorized him to raise the First Regiment of Cherokee Mounted Volunteers. Cherokee Chief John Ross signed t...
CONFEDERATE MISSOURI TROOPS ===8th Regiment, Missouri Infantry==The 8th Missouri Infantry (CSA) was also know as Mitchell's Missouri Battalion. Mitchell formed a battalion in 1862, at Thomasville, MO. it was first designated the "5th" then the "7th" and finally the "8th". There was another 8th commanded by a Colonel Burns. See the book "Serving with Honor, the diary of Eathan Allan Pinnell, of ...